Bridging Social and Environmental Justice: Mapping the Geography of Environmental Segregation in Columbus, OH
- Discipline
- City and Regional Planning
- Semester
- Spring 2018
- Work Type
- Presentation
- related to
- Johnson, Frank
- Location
- Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, NA
- Description
- This research explores secondary data of Franklin County, OH to search for a measurable relationship between socioeconomic vitality and the environment. As shown in the Literature Review, it does this to fortify the theoretical bond between environmental and socioeconomic urban mechanics, and integrate urban assessment methods with the agenda of environmental justice. The Methods section lays out all of the secondary data indicators used in this analysis, as well the methods themselves and the motivations behind them. Data Analysis is the heart of the results, in which we demonstrate the meaningful relationship we found between socioeconomic and environmental indicators, inequality in the geographic distributions of each, and stipulations on our results. We explore possible policy impacts that may have created such inequitable conditions in our Case Study of the Bexley and Near East neighborhoods. In our Discussion, we hypothesize on contributing factors beyond the scope of our results, propose a hypothetical role of discrimination within them, and set forth current limitations of remote urban assessment broadly.